Improve the configuration experience for Bitbucket repositories.
Review Request #343 — Created Jan. 19, 2017 and updated
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The Bitbucket configuration experience confuses some users. Since Bitbucket moved to a standardized Atlassian e-mail-based system for logging in, people often try to use their e-mail addresses to link up with the account. However, with Bitbucket, the API actually expects a Bitbucket username, and providing an e-mail address ends up triggering an unexpected HTTP error code, which we weren't handling. On top of this, users who had two-factor authentication could not log in with their standard password, which confused some users. This was made worse by the fact that Bitbucket provides no reasonable error in this case. Users need to use app-specific passwords, which wasn't obvious, and is buried in a document somewhere on the Bitbucket support portal. We now provide a custom authentication form, which gives useful instructions on authenticating, spelling out exactly what's needed for both the username and password. One additional improvement has to do with adding other users' repositories. We previously only offered support for adding your linked user's repository or a team repository. We now offer an option for choosing another user. That takes care of some customer confusion we've had in the past. Testing Done: Tested the Other User option manually. Tested with two-factor auth enabled and using both app passwords (which work) and standard Bitbucket passwords (which do not, and fail gracefully now). Checked the help output for the different choices. Unit tests pass. Reviewed at https://reviews.reviewboard.org/r/8597/